Hello fellow history fans! Welcome back to another brilliant edition of the Sunday Digest. Where we gather all those fantastic threads and brilliant answers that get written every week. Don’t forget to throw some upvotes, thank the authors and check out the weekly features! A little thanks goes a long way.

• Special feature today! Go ask questions in We are AskHistorians flairs of the Viking Age! Ask us anything about Assassin's Creed: Valhalla!

• We have a great AMA: Abby Mullen with Consolation Prize, a podcast about the US in the world through the eyes of its consuls.

• /u/commiespaceinvader leads the way with a special Monday Methods: Was Hitler democratically elected?

• We’ve got a new podcast for you! AskHistorians Episode 162 - Philip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy

• Check out the Thursday Reading and Recommendations.

• And of course we have a fun Friday Free For All!

• META time! Lets start off with Can the mods please reconsider the frequency of removal of comments?

• We also got a second META thread. “This sub is terrible”. Honestly, I disagree myself. What do you think?

• Then Is talking about nazism in general allowed in this subreddit? To which the answer is Yes. Frequently.

That wraps us up for another week and gives you plenty of great posts to browse through. Have yourselves a great time and I’ll see you all next week!

It's that time of week again! You know, time when we take a look at the wilder side of /r/AskHistorians. That's right, it's time for "The Real Questions", where I shout out the unique, oddly specific, atypical, or otherwise interesting questions of the week, the ones that make me say "Finally, someone is asking the real questions."

(What's this? A new—and much shorter—opening crawl? Well, we'll see if this lasts.)

I've been doing this for several months, but unless you've stalked my profile in the wiki for some reason, you've probably never seen the whole collection. Well, at long last I'm including a link to my full collection of Real Questions, that I've been tracking since June!

Below are my entries for this week - questions with a ‡ have a link to an older thread. What do you think were the realest questions?

I asked two questions about Apartheid South Africa:

What were the effects of the various boycotts against South Africa?

In a Chappelle's Show sketch, American "troubled teens" are sent to a "boot camp" run by Nelson Mandela. What were the uMkhonto we Sizwe's reputations for discipline and brutality? Did Mandela have a role in combat training? Were Mandela's views on recreational marijuana use known?

On historiography, What place does cliodynamics have in historiography? and What are the historiographic best practices for choosing which demonyms to use?

/u/dk asked How did the Dalai Lama become such a respected spiritual figure in the Western world?

/u/dieselakr asked "White Feather" societies and the aftermath of WWI combat: are there any sources indicating if/how the horrendous injuries in WWI changed public opinion towards joining the British Military?

/u/[deleted] asked Was Amelia Earhart considered attractive by the men of her time, or was she considered too "butch"?

/u/J2quared asked In 1906 was Japan seriously considering adopting Islam as its national religion?

/u/Basilikon asked American race riots occur frequently in the 20th century until about 1922, and then don't show up again until the Detroit Riot of 1943. Why does the US appear to have gone through the Great Depression without any of the large scale racial violence that characterized it before and after?

/u/ibbity asked Did Arthur Conan Doyle's 1893 Sherlock Holmes story "The Aventure of the Yellow Face," which expresses approval of interracial marriage and procreation, receive any backlash in the press or in general society at the time it was published?

Take a moment to shout out some of the interesting questions that got overlooked over the course of a busy week. Whether they caught your eye or inspired your own history research, feel free to post them below.

• /u/victorav29 asked about Cattle and Wild West/ Frontier.

• /u/Realexis1 asked How did global spice trade, pre industrialization and refrigeration, or more specifically circa 1500, function to keep spices fresh for long periods of time?

• /u/fuzzus628 asked Are there any 20th-century rulers in exile who had a noticeable effect on the country they claimed to control? What, if any, relationship existed between the leader-in-exile and the de facto government of the nation...or the nation's people?